skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rise_of_the_Meritocracy absolutely is satire (or rather, satire used to serious effect). But it's true that this was very quickly forgotten.
In addition to the Federal Register someone else already mentioned, I hear there is a company working on blockchain as an immutable record of laws and other government documents. I don't remember the name.
Another clickbait, it's a replacement for Dropbox in the same way as a tent is a replacement for a car - you can sleep in both.

Whole thing just looks like poor ad for DigitalOcean
I keep most of my wealth in places where physical verification is needed. Good luck stealing all the money on my bank accounts, I don’t really care.
Yes? They had metal fence barriers (like at a concert) up with chairs behind them for the observers. During the recount they had the observers 30-40 ft back which meant they weren't observing anything. They were just in the room.

I saw the obvious issue with this and called to ask why. His response was that "legally we're in compliance."
Embedded scripting with Umka: Using C structures as native data types
You can even get multiple numbers if you want. Though I think you're not supposed to.
> They specifically either did not make or withdrew fraud allegations in many cases.

The general point being that they did make and did not withdraw fraud allegations in other cases.

> A number of the election cases went to trial (6 out of 54 tracked on Wikipedia reached a final verdict after trial, and 1 is listed as trial ongoing, though that may be out of date)

Which implies that the large majority of them didn't, doesn't it? It's not as if they were all fungible.

> Well, procedure matters.

Sure it does. But it has the result that it has. Nobody ever decides the merit of the claims dismissed on procedure.
If that's the path to install, yes. I think most apps have some sort of web landing page to sell the idea that then sends user to the app store when they are ready to download
Stash is a Go app which organizes and serves your porn
You seem far more sure than you should be; many churches are openly accepting of LGBT people.
Space launch isn't a profitable business model? How exactly are they making money by launching payloads for people then?
Amazing, sorry for delay - thanks for this info - really appreciate the advice!
googles wiseenergy.

Oh look it's the successor to WindpowerFacts.info, run by a climate change denier. I'm so ready to trust his opinion on legal matters.
Interesting, but don’t like that the site hijacks my browser back button
Thanks, I'll take a read, great advice, thank you :)
Sorry, I meant Indian culture as in American Indian. Native American is confusing in this context as it could refer to Inuits as well.

The Asian culture I’m thinking about would be from Siberia or Kamchatka.

Interestingly, the Ainu people historicly lived pretty close to the Kamchatka peninsula (perhaps even on it), guessing that some culture that later was adopted by the Japanese from the Ainu but was also brought to North-America by proxy of pre-inuit peoples is not that far off.

EDIT: And as for what they brought over, couldn’t the American Indians further south have benefited from escaped domesticated animals like the dog breeds they brought over from Asia. And wouldn’t the closest neighboring tribes have learned different hunting techniques from each other, techniques that would have traveled south. Did pre-inuit people never trade or fight with American Indian people? I’m sure there is a lot of interesting interactions going on there that we are missing.
> I meant that we have never successfully eradicated a member of the coronavirus family.

The last case of SARS-CoV-1 was in 2004 and the virus is considered eradicated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severe_acute_respiratory_syndr...
I'm heading over for a read now, thanks so much for sharing :)
I met an elder romanian begger couple and they told me that EU rights don't matter for them. In practice they simply cannot receive the benefits they are entitled to at home, because they are of some kind of discriminated against minority (gypsies or something).
I love RDBMS over NoSql but the whole upgrade and schema change always is stressful. I miss the days when we could ask our DBA to deal with it. :)
I'm sure there are some, but I think most people can afford to care about their safety. People who cannot are probably using mass transit and not taxis, since that is a very high cost method of transportation.

I think most people really believe they are all the same (and they might be right) and aren't willing to pay for a hypothetical benefit.
No, just with the lasers that propel that sail.

(I did mention reasonable durations of travel.)
Here's a smattering of interesting entries from this page:

>"Diamond - Excellent thermal conductivity. Superior mechanical and optical properties. Extremely high nanomechanical resonator quality factor.[6]"

Indium antimonide - Used in infrared detectors and thermal imaging sensors, high quantum efficiency, low stability, require cooling, used in military long-range thermal imager systems. AlInSb-InSb-AlInSb structure used as quantum well. Very high electron mobility, electron velocity and ballistic length.

Transistors can operate below 0.5V and above 200 GHz. Terahertz frequencies may be achievable.

Lanthanum calcium manganate - colossal magnetoresistance

Lanthanum copper oxide - superconductive when doped with barium or strontium

Nickel(II) oxide - antiferromagnetic

Silicon-tin - Adjustable band gap. [34]

Strontium titanate - Ferroelectric, piezoelectric. Used in varistors. Conductive when niobium-doped.

Tin(II) sulfide - Tin sulfide (SnS) is a semiconductor with direct optical band gap of 1.3 eV and absorption coefficient above 104 cm−1 for photon energies above 1.3 eV. It is a p-type semiconductor whose electrical properties can be tailored by doping and structural modification and has emerged as one of the simple, non-toxic and affordable materials for thin films solar cells since a decade."

Etc., etc...

PDS: Also, any semiconductor material on the list capable of generating a laser -- should also be theoretically capable of receiving a laser too; that is, acting as a transducer/optical transistor/transciever -- for that laser beam as well (in other words, instead of communications via electricity down metal paths on a chip's surface, any chip made with this material should (and yes, I know, the science is a long way off!), should in the future be able to communicate with other parts of itself via laser/light beams...)

But, this should (no doubt!) be a fun list to revisit from time to time -- I can't wait to see how it unfolds (when more entries and information is added) in the future!
First off, like all the other comments have said already, the systems in question were auditable. They printed out a paper receipt and they verified those by a hand-count.

Second, considering who we're dealing with, it fundamentally doesn't matter. They aren't actually arguing for more secure elections, they're looking for any reason to throw out the results because they lost. If systems were up to "international standards" (I don't know what those are, can you be more specific?) they'll just say they're "liberal commie standards that you can't trust, and we need American standards" or some nonsense like that.

By all means have more secure elections. Just know that it won't do anything in a scenario where the loser claims any result other than their victory is "rigged".
Yes, and that's why they are not easy to measure and cost is.
That is the most impressive thing I've heard all day. I wish the air raid siren worked haha.
Screwtape Proposes a Toast [pdf]
That sort of thing just amazes me. I get that it is "programmed" by DNA, and I understand programming quite well, but the series of chemical reactions that allow the cells to go from gamete to full thing still fills me with wonder.
> Instead of filing massive law suits, why doesn't Dominion attempt to prove, without a shadow of a doubt, that the machines were _not_ biased

Well now they'll have to do exactly that in a courtroom. I can't think of a better place for it.
I have my C2 in a room with a big TV on the wall but, yeah, practically speaking something that interfaces with an iPad app probably makes more sense in general. Rigging up an iPad stand for a C2 would be pretty trivial--and may well already exist.

If I were seriously looking at something like this as a business, I'd probably want to do a non-subscription offering that let you row down the Charles and other such rivers in an immersive and somewhat randomized environment but tried to get people to pay for real P2P interactions--which a lot would.

Not an actual interest of mine to do but I think someone could retrofit a much better virtual experience on a C2 than currently exists that people would pay good money for.
No, I didn’t say that. It’s not about deserving....people don’t have privacy, it’s better to adapt to it.

There are lots of things in our lives that we don’t deserve but we have to deal with.

I keep some data extremely securely, just not the data that I think will get out anyways.
Pretty much every noted cybersecurity expert disagrees.
> None were discussed on merits.

Incorrect, read some of the cases. Quite a few were dismissed on the merits. Literally your own link says “YES” in the Decided on Merits column! Did you not read your link?

Some of the later cases were not decided on merits because they were filed so late (e.g., suing over a change suggested by Republicans used in the 2016 Wisconsin election to fill in missing zip codes and then used again in 2020, or a change passed by Republican legislators in 2019 and promoted by them to the public in 2020 in Pennsylvania, and only complained about after Biden won).

However, some courts did reach the merits and found the claims of Trump campaign and his allies to be completely meritless. Note that Giuliani and his associates, when under oath in court, stated their cases were not fraud cases but then went to press conferences and claimed they were.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/21/politics/federal-judge-dismis...

> Judge Matthew Brann of the US District Court in the Middle District of Pennsylvania called the Trump campaign's case "Frankenstein's monster" for its poorly stitched together legal theories.

>

> On Friday, a federal appeals court dealt the Trump campaign's effort another blow, with a Trump-appointed judge writing in a scathing opinion that the campaign's lawsuit lacked proof and that its allegations in Pennsylvania "have no merit."
Biden Appoints Jessica Rosenworcel, Net Neutrality Supporter as Acting FCC Chair
> Diplomatic immunity hardly ever gets used nowadays

Harry Dunn’s family might disagree with this ...
Steve Jobs is rolling in his grave. After working so hard to make repairing Apple devices a pain... and all that work is being undone.

Do these laws take everything repairable into consideration? Last I read, farmers were getting bent over by their farming equipment makers.
Walking Dead Libraries
This is a fairly rose-colored view. The 15% is recent and applies if you meet a list of conditions, and updates often get stuck just as they would on the Play Store.
super cool launch, 2FA can definitely add a lot of complexity for enterprise accounts
Company apps without code
RTX 3080 Mining Rig in a BMW’s Trunk
The observers are not there to make sure the ballot scanners are working. They're there to audit the portion of the process which can never ever be re-audited: the provenance of secret ballots. Of course if you re-count the same ballots over again you'll come up with something roughly the same. This "hand recount had identical* results" mantra to reinforce the core idea "the election has been independently verified" may work on the general public but it shouldn't work on HN.

There's no need to believe the suitcases were smuggled in, although you yourself appear to have doubts in that direction. For example, they could be perfectly authentic ballots with some flawed provenance. A priori this seems the most plausible explanation.

> rather than simply having left.

Leaving a semi-public place such as an arena or an office building for the night has the result of not being permitted back in until the next public opening. Your arguments have turned to disingenuity and open trolling.
I don't understand how retargeting would work with this?

Attributions is a big pain too.

Without those two things this simply makes google more valuable while killing everyone else who doesn't have their own browser which tracks everything from your login, analytics on basically every website, and more.
Apple support is mostly humans. That being said, they usually have a script they will not stray from.
Seems trivial to 'randomly' sample a select subset of the votes. And that does nothing to guard against vote dumps. Non existent voters cannot validate their votes.

Do you know where the Dominion validation process is clearly documented so it is easy to see whether it is easily subverted? I will bet the answer is no, and the software and hardware are all trade secrets and impossible for voters to verify :D. Sounds like a totally trustworthy system to me.
I wonder if it's safe to wear a radioactive source on the wrist like that. Or is it not strong enough to matter?
Ad Choices also intentionally obscured the access into by making it small and appear to be ad branding rather than a button.
>Why is it baseless to challenge voter fraud concerns?

It's not baseless to claim voter fraud when you have proof. It's baseless when you claim voter fraud without any actual proof.

>If anything this will chill future concerns and people will not speak up. It sounds like you don’t want anyone to ever question a vote.

It sounds like he expects the President of the United States to act with the integrity the office commands. Not ask/condone/allow his lawyer to lie on television (where he can make up any lie he wants) while admitting there was no fraud in court (where he's actually held legally accountable for his statements).

https://www.salon.com/2020/11/18/judge-cancels-fraud-evidenc...
I never claimed that this is 1 on 1 replacement for Dropbox. Dropbox is much much much more than what I am doing here. And I agree with you on that point. I choose DO because it is very easy to set up and get started with.

But for my needs this is all that I need and it solves my use case.

And regarding DO, its just one of the possible S3 providers out there. One could choose something else.
> Instead of filing massive law suits, why doesn't Dominion attempt to prove, without a shadow of a doubt, that the machines were _not_ biased with technical evidence.

Why would their code matter? Far more important than the code is the paper ballot audit trail their machines produce.

And that audit trail has been audited by multiple states, run by both Republicans and Democrats, after the election and found to be flawless. The machines counted properly. https://sos.ga.gov/index.php/elections/historic_first_statew...
I wonder if it's possible to have effects from disuse, as opposed to overuse?

Since WFH I can go for days without uttering a word. When I'm in a situation where I can talk to someone, my voice seems thin and cracks a lot. If I "warm up" my voice occasionally, singing along to music, etc. this goes away and my "normal" voice returns.
Ask HN: Does Apple afford to buy TSMC and complete its acquisition?
Apologize just curious this Quora question is supposedly more cogently answered here... Thanks much for the sincerity

https://www.quora.com/Does-Apple-afford-to-buy-TSMC-and-complete-its-acquisition
If it’s a matter of oversight that EU officials heretofore had not this status then it is surely petty to not recognise the precedent and amend the laws if needs be.
You can collapse threads you no longer intend to read.
I’d actually look at the vision of people with dark skin who now reside in northern latitudes. Typically that is the most vitamin D deficient population, since their melanin levels are tuned for more intense sunlight than their current location provides.
For clarity, is "They" DO or tarsnap?
Television Without Context
Or find people nearby with a bit money and rob them?
I tried to use Sia once but I needed to download the entire blockchain. Not a fan of storing 5 GB locally so I can store 1 GB remotely...
It's not just about whether you can see there's an oncoming car. For example, if you can't read the road signs ahead until a few seconds later than someone with "normal" vision, your driving will be seriously affected due to lack of timely information, and the added mental burden of trying to compensate for this.
The counterargument has been heard. There are only so many times you can audit an election before you give up because the facts are not the point: there are plenty of people in the US who saw Trump as a savior because he's a mean spirited asshole who is afraid of a majority-minority country, and so they cannot comprehend how someone who was so popular to so many would have lost an election by such a large margin. Their brains are broken by a constant stream of alternate reality idiocy

Several judges punted on standing and laches but also said that even if they heard the case, it would not end up in the favor of the plaintiff because they were silly issues to bring up.

The GOP attorneys were basically arguing that the letter of the law says that only state legislatures have the right to do anything with regards to elections. They also asked the courts to grant state legislatures powers that they do not normally possess. These are complete nonsense and always has been. State legislatures don't actually do anything. They pass laws that direct how the rest of government operates, along with the limits of discretion those other branches have.

Everybody who paid ANY attention in this past election knows that their own states did these same things. Texas sent that lawsuit to the US Supreme Court. It was idiotic on standing issues alone, but also because they only challenged the actions of states that did not vote for Trump. Texas itself had an executive who changed the rules during the election. North Carolina also did this. They KNOW this.

But it's easier to believe that the election was stolen than it is to believe that the country chose someone who is the antithesis of the guy you supported, and so that's what they do.
Any voting machine that doesn’t have printed paper ballots is questionable and should not be used. Dominion machines do, unfortunately there are a few non-swing states that have fully electronic voting still.
Love your app, easily the best experience of all dating apps. However, stability and notifications are atrocious. App notifications lead the data showing up in the app. Sometimes notifications fail all together. You guys can dominate this space if you can fix these issues.
What's the Alternative to Piracy?
kind of, kind of not. To the extent that brightness contracts your pupil, and the depth of field available to your eye increases with smaller pupil size[1]. People with focus issues find they can always focus when the light is bright enough (assuming normally functioning pupils).

So there are optical properties that are affected by bright light, and your eyes respond to that. What the mechanism is for affecting overall focus range of your eye? I would agree that is unstated/unknown.

[1] Which, as a science project, is fun to demonstrate that a pin hole camera doesn't need a lens for this reason.
Thanks for checking it out - may we both never have to succumb to third party syncing platforms again!
I always thought my myopia was caused by computer usage. Reading this it sounds more likely that it was growing up in Calgary, Canada and spending huge amounts of time indoors and in basements.
Because it's not baseless?

Trump colluded with Russia
> NASA already has a system for that, TDRS. I wonder how busy it is nowadays?

last time i had anything to do with TDRSS (circa 2013), it was extremely busy, expensive, and it was the military that got the high bandwidth links. we could only use it to communicate with our research spacecraft during early orbit activities, or emergencies. and we got something like 2400 to 9600bps.
Thanks! We stuck with plain EC2. RDS has a limit of 80,000 provisioned IOPS and our read replicas on Postgres 9.6 would regularly hit near double that during peak
There is another issue of potential/actual misuse that few are discussing.

That is, the (mis)use of experiments on browser users. "Field trials." This is enabled by the use of "updates". When users agree to updates they agree to let a corporation silently install and run new code on their computer at will, at any time.

This permits the company to create a situation where person A's browser is not quite the same program as person B's, there will be differences. Thus the corporation can run an "experiment". Both person A and person B might believe "I am using XYZ browser". The two users believe it is the same program. However there are differences. The differences can be added and removed through "automatic updates".

How do users maintain privacy in that situtation. The company behind XYZ browser can easily isolate groups of users with similar/different traits by conducting such experiments and observing user behaviour. "Cohorts". While the company may argue it is only testing software, there is an argument that it can also be testing users.

The words in parentheticals above can be defined and redfined any way you like. What is important is what the corporation is actually doing, not the label/name/terminology they assign to it.
The article points out it farmers as some of the loudest proponents of it.
In a similar vein an apartment with a few small windows and one with floor to ceiling on two sides - dramatic difference
There were manual recounts that returned the same results.
I remember learning about it while reading about someone doing this to pass 20/20 SFTI test (aka topgun).
It's also quite interesting that Democrats have tried multiple times in the past two Congresses to provide for election security laws, with mandatory paper ballots AND standard auditing, and yet Republicans refused to bring any of those bills to the floor in the Senate.
sorry, but HN isn't a great medium for long technical posts :)

The basic issue is that Australia naive measurements and numbers carry a three tier definition of homelessness: at the lowest level you have what we call "sleeping rough" which is probably the concept closest to what most people and Americans think of as "homeless". But the Australian definition also includes the likes of insecure accommodation and inappropriate accommodation: couch surfers, people living in accommodation with inadequate living conditions, people sleeping in their cars, in socially provisioned homeless accommodation and emergency/crisis accommodation (domestic violence, youth, men and aged issues were the traditional breakdown of most services in my day).

To compare between the two nations from official sources you have to bring them back onto a somewhat comparable basis.
And you think open-sourcing it would calm down the claims, and they wouldn't claim exactly the same + "well of course they didn't use the software they gave us the code for"?
Yes, the more media attention the scandal got, the greater the losses to the company. The truth or falseness of the accusations didn't play a role.
I'm curious why open source voting software and hardware isn't universally required.
Thanks for checking it out @cgilbert3. Yes 2FA is added security for enterprise accounts but makes sharing seats / accounts much harder. This app simplifies some of that process without compromising security.
related video on Compliant Mechanisms they briefly talk about a device to safety nuclear warheads.
about a minute in and again at 10:20

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97t7Xj_iBv
What a genius nancy pelosi is!

https://twitter.com/SawyerMerritt/status/1353151234568572935